absolutely true conversation:

[fox]

boy with clipboard, approaching me as i walk up cornmarket street with obvious don't-talk-to-me purpose:  Excuse me, are you a vegetarian?
me, carrying on walking:  Nope.
boy with clipboard, as i pass by without even stopping:  You look like a vegetarian.

i'm going to choose to believe it means "i notice that you have long straight hair and are not wearing any makeup, which could i suppose make you some sort of leftover hippie-type person, and in my desperation to get someone to sign my petition i'm going to equate 'hippie-type person' with 'vegetarian', hey, where are you going?"  because otherwise, i'm not sure what "you look like a vegetarian" means, when said to someone wearing a leather jacket.

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[cannons-at-dawn.livejournal.com]

THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME LAST WEEK! :D Only it was 'You must be a vegetarian or a vegan, right?' I stopped to talk and it was apparently because I 'looked calm'. Which I may well have looked, but wasn't at all, being in my usual state of pent-up rage produced by walking down Cornmarket at lunchtime. I'm not sure what he was selling, but he's clearly not the greatest judge of character.

xx

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

hmm. i suppose i may have 'looked calm', for the same reason you did (it's best not to let the masses see that you wish they were all DEAD); and if he'd said 'You must be a vegetarian' first, i'd -- well, i doubt i'd have stopped, but i'd have been less mystified. but, dude, i had just said i wasn't.

i mean, that's two conversations in three days where someone has doubted my own report of my own tendencies. "Are you really straight?" "Yes." "Are you sure?" "... pretty sure, yeah." and now this! no, i'm definitely not a vegetarian, man, and trust me, i of all people would know!

[sharp-tongue.livejournal.com]

It means you don't eat fish!

[datlowen.livejournal.com]

Perhaps because you have fair skin? Although this being Britain I can't imagine that stands out all that much, really.

[gail-b.livejournal.com]

I'm a vegetarian and I can tell you that you look nothing like us. (heh)

It's a secret sort of thing, only other vegetarians can tell.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

because otherwise, i'm not sure what "you look like a vegetarian" means, when said to someone wearing a leather jacket.

[snickers]

"You could stand to gain some weight," maybe? Or maybe just "You make eye contact with people with clipboards"?

The kidlet's kindergarten teachers were a married couple, both vegans. Very nice people. Painfully skinny. One night I dreamed they'd spent a year eating steak in Argentina, and had come back home all plump and sleek and rosy.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

"You could stand to gain some weight," maybe?

[snort] UNtrue.

"You make eye contact with people with clipboards"

but i don't!

[axiom_of_stripe]

well, you know, many lesbians are vegetarians....

*giggle*

actually, in seriousness it was probably like this: you know that far side cartoon where the guy is lecturing the dog and all the dog hears is "blah blah blah ginger blah blah"? i suspect your conversation sounded like this from the other side--

boy with clipboard, approaching you as you walk up cornmarket street with obvious don't-talk-to-me purpose: I am going to attract your attention as the first step toward getting your signature.
you, carrying on walking: I acknowledge that you spoke to me.
boy with clipboard, as you pass by without even stopping: Ah-hah! We have contact! I am encouraged to continue reading from my script.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I AM ALSO NOT A LESBIAN!

not that there's anything wrong with that.


[ggg]

[axiom_of_stripe]

hee!

[merrycontrary.livejournal.com]

It means, uh, you look like me? Poor dear. Hee. MMMWAH! *glomps and runs*

[orange852.livejournal.com]

Um, it means you didn't have raw hunks of flesh stuck between your teeth and that mustKillANIMAL expression on? No ragged bits of fur under your nails? Small furry creatures flee not at your approach?

His head was up his ass?

[impyvixen.livejournal.com]

long, straight hair? really? damn, it's been too long.

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

Next time someone tries that tell 'em you love kitten sushi.